Welcome!

Steps grantees, partners, and associated national organizations attended the 2008 Steps Cooperative Agreement Program Action Institute: Toward a Sustainable Future for Community Health. The conference took place from March 18 through March 20 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia. This year’s conference focused on training in the areas of—

• Policy Change

• Systems Change

• Organizational Change

• Environmental Change

• Sustainability

• Evaluation

Click here* for information on the Action Institute.

Click here for information on the 2008 Steps Community Heroes Awards Ceremony held during the Action Institute.

If you have any questions about the 2008 Steps CAP Action Institute, please send an e-mail to nccdodsteps@cdc.gov or call 770-488-6452.

Action Institute Purpose/Goal/Objectives

Purpose:
To promote chronic disease prevention and health promotion at the community level by bringing together Steps grantees, partners, and national organizations to share lessons learned and to provide expertise related to policy, systems, organizational, and environmental change strategies and sustainability of programmatic efforts that address Steps initiatives.

Goal:
To provide information on how Steps communities have implemented specific, sustainable programs and activities that have led to policy, systems, organizational, or environmental change interventions.

Learning Objectives:
After attending the 2008 Steps CAP Action Institute, participants will have acquired new, detailed information about—

• How various Steps programs have implemented policy, systems, organizational, and environmental change strategies in their communities.

• Effective ways to apply the use of evidence-based and practice-based tools and resources for implementing policy, systems, organizational, and environmental change strategies.

• Valuable methods for encouraging sustainability of programmatic efforts at the community level.

• Useful approaches for communicating the importance of sustainability in the community to partners.

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Page last reviewed: May 2, 2008
Page last modified: March 19, 2008
Content source: Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion